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If you want more pics just check out the "FS in August" thread lower down on the For sale forum.
Let's see if I can summarize up the history of this vehicle:
Mud member LAVA listed it in 2015 as available in August, but it was not import able to the US due to the 25 yr rule. He sold it to a "fellow Canadian", his last listed price: $19,000 obo.
Just after its 25th birthday it then showed up on ebay in Montana with a $29,500 BIN, but the bidding didn't even make it to $10,000.
Now it's back on ebay, less than 6 months later, in Tennessee with a $29,900 BIN.
It seams like each time the price increase is justified by some black paint over the parts that were originally a little rusty.
To bad it wasn't sold to a fellow MUD member who would have appreciated it instead of being passed around the country by dealers trying to flip it
My intention was not to damage the seller by lowering how much money they could make, but to help the other MUD members by sharing my knowledge of this vehicles history which I think is the purpose of these forums.
@mudandrock Thanks -- this is exactly the kind of info that we're all curious about. Explains a lot. When this info isn't volunteered, it only makes people suspicious (or it makes me suspicious, anyway). Sounds like everyone had really good intentions and life realities have just gotten in the way, which is a bummer.
@charles harris I don't want to tell anyone how to sell their trucks, but in my opinion, when you have a lot of people scratching their heads and wondering aloud about what's going on, then the ad clearly isn't doing the truck and the backstory justice. When you say "well, I don't know any of the history, come look and figure it out yourself" it doesn't sound great, and it certainly curbs my interest. Nobody's scared of working on a 25-year-old truck, but nobody likes random surprises either--and the eBay ad is pretty short on details. Even if nobody's trying to "flip" the truck, it LOOKS that way, and that's what matters. If everyone sees the ad and thinks the same thing--hmm, this doesn't seem right--then that's a problem with the ad, not the buyers.
well isn't this nice, we've cleaned the air a little bit here, good thing this forum exists.
with or without this forum's input PRIOR, now that mudandrock's input is out there with the story, it's worth a lot for this potential sale, good luck to all.